欧州自転車レース追っかけ日記

It's time I start repairing my Birdy (2003 model)
At least I bought it as new way back in spring of 2003. It came with Shimano Caprio component set.

I haven't ridden it more than two years as the shifter began to slip (ratchet gears worn out?). I knew I had to swap them. I knew I would swap the shifter, cables, rear hub, sprocket, deraileur and some others. I bought Shimano Deore XT parts.

Shimano has discontinued its Caprio component line since long time ago. The Caprio rear hub has special measurements (smallest cog 9 teeth).

I have already accumulated enough material to revive it but I have been too lazy.

I'm also planning to renew the front wheel. I'm thinking of making a wheel with the Shimano dynamo-hub using the old rim. I need properly cut spokes.

Making the rear wheel is easier as the hub measurements, as long as the wheel making is concerned, are exactly the same whether it is a Caprio rear hub or almost any other Shimano mountain bike rear hub. I can recycle the spokes without any problems.

Let's start, shall we?

In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [Birdy 2003 to be resurrected]の続きを読む

テーマ:自転車（スポーツ用） - ジャンル:スポーツ

1. 2025/01/10(金) 21:22:29|
2. Bikes and related things
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How popular is Tenet 2020 among other Sir Christopher Nolan's movies?

In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [How popular is Tenet 2020 among other Sir Christopher Nolan's movies?]の続きを読む

テーマ:洋画 - ジャンル:映画

1. 2025/01/06(月) 17:02:40|
2. Diary
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Tenet 2020 Tallinn car chase scene: raiders of the algorithm
The Raiders of the algorithm scene is really confusing. this is the first real scene where forwarders and reversers interact (the second scene would be the Stalsk-12 battle).

Earlier, the Protagonist witnesses a reverse soldier shoot (backward) and leave at the opera house in Kiev, Ukraine but no real interaction.

I'm reading the screenplay and comparing the lines between those of the screenplay and English subtitle. I'm also paying attention to the backgrounds provided in the screenplay. Usually the lines in the screenplay are longer. Obviously some of the lines did not make it in the final cut.

Some of those that did not make it in the final cut seem to me essential or indisposable for understanding the deep underlying themes and plots that combine the whole story.

Obviously those in the know and savvy did not need any of those revealing lines and understood the underlying themes and plots with the lines in the final cut.

For example, I did not know that cold-blooded nature of the covert operation in the story. Neil was repeatedly told by the Protagonist that he (Neil) would be killed if he knew too much. Kat was a target of removal by Priya in the end.

I understood it when I read some of the lines by Priya telling the Protagonist the Tenet policies.

She tells the Protagonist things like:
"This was always a suicide mission - that's why they recruited a corpse."

This line did not make it in the final cut. The whole operation was a suicide mission all the way and no one was supposed to outlive the operation.

I was hopeful to see a happy end but I was wrong. No one absolutely no one was supposed to live happily ever after. Maybe that was why this Priya's line did not make it.

Now I'm tackling the raiders scene and hopefully I'll get it right.

In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [Amalfi, Italy and The IPCRESS File 1965]の続きを読む

テーマ:洋画 - ジャンル:映画

1. 2025/01/05(日) 01:21:30|
2. Diary
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A Happy New Year!
I wish you all a happy new year!

In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [Happy New Year, 2025!]の続きを読む

テーマ:洋画 - ジャンル:映画

1. 2025/01/02(木) 02:28:34|
2. Diary
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I'm continuing my Tenet writing in Japanese.

In Japanese: 続きをどうぞ [Tenet 2020 Max = Neil theory III]の続きを読む

テーマ:洋画 - ジャンル:映画

1. 2024/12/30(月) 00:43:54|
2. Diary
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